Individual user and Home Use. Purchase all of Robert Inventor's mini utilities- for home or personal use only.
Commercial license, You need this to purchase the mini utilities for use by an organisation. It allows use of them on any number of computers belonging to your organisation, and any number of users.
If you know what order type you would like and wish to buy on-line:
If you are interested in my other programs, note the new Three for Two offer - Buy any two of my main programs Tune Smithy , Virtual Flower , or Lissajous 3D and get all three and my mini utilities as well.
If you need further information, read on.
These prices cover all future additions to the mini utilities package - you never need to buy it again.
To purchase, go to Buy now - Secure order, Choose the order type, then click Order Now and Continue. The order gets processed when you fill in your details and click the Place your Order button on the third page.
What you purchase is the unlock key. It gets sent to you as soon as the order is completed. You then use it to unlock the program you get from the download page.
The idea is that you download a program, try it out, then if you want to buy it, you order an unlock key.
Sometimes you get an evaluation period of so many days to try out the program, and sometimes the free version of the program is feature limited, or has a time out per session.
This system helps both the authors and the users. You get to try the program out first before you buy it. The authors don't need to pay extra costs for packaging and distribution, and can focus efforts entirely on the programming and support for users. The system is often used for programs nowadays, because of its many advantages.
With Text Echo, you can take the program for a 30 day test drive which unlocks all the features for thirty days so that you can decide whether you want to purchase the program or not. During this period you can use the program exactly as you will be able to use it when you purchase it.
After the test drive is over, if you haven't bought it yet, then you can continue to use a feature limited version of the program for free. You can request another test drive at any time if you need to evaluate a new feature or re-evaluate the program.
In the case of Text Echo, then you
You are recommended to test the program to make sure it is suitable for your purposes before you buy it.
What are the different order types of Text Echo available?
$16 Individual user and Home Use. Purchase all of Robert Inventor's mini utilities- for home or personal use only.
You and any of your household are free to use the program on any of your machines. You can also use it on other people's machines whentraveling - just be sure to remove your unlock key when you go (which you can do from Help | Unlock) or uninstall the program when you go.
$100 Commercial license, You need this to purchase the mini utilities for use by an organisation. It allows use of them on any number of computers belonging to your organisation, and any number of users.
Home users don't need a commercial license.
You also don't need a commercial license for a one person type organisation. You only need it if you need it if you want to install it on a number of computers all used simultaneously by different members of your organisation.
The order is processed by my agents RegNow who have specialised in providing this service for shareware authors.
Note that the first page of the order process won't show up as a secure page in your browser, as it has no sensitive information on it. For more details - see the RegNow Frequently Asked Questions – General Information
I don't see your credit card details myself, I just get notification that you have bought FTS, together with details of the order type etc. Also, RegNow will make the unlock key for you automatically, so this means that you receive it immediately, as soon as they receive payment.
You are welcome to try the process out first, as far as the page where you need to enter your credit card details - to see how it works. If you have any questions about the order process be sure to ask them or me :-). support@tunesmithy.co.uk .
Also be sure to contact me if the order doesn't go through for any reason - my experience has been that RegNow are swift at resolving any questions or problems.
You will receive an unlock key code instantly when you complete the order. This is valid for all future releases of Text Echo. The unlock key will come with instructions on how to use it. Basically you enter it into the unlock window from Help | Unlock. There is no need to re-download the program to unlock it.
If you pay in US dollars, there is an option to use PayPal on the RegNow order page. That's best, as you will get sent the unlock key as soon as they receive your payment. You just need to choose PayPal as the order method when you go to Order Now on the RegNow page.
If paying in other currencies or if for some reason you want to pay me directly, then you can do that here. There may be delays for up to several days, and on occasion may be a week or longer before I process the order.
Before you purchase using the PayPal form here
Contact support@tunesmithy.co.uk first, to see if I am available to process your order right away.
To use any of these methods, go to the RegNow order page, and after you choose "order now", choose how you wish to pay from the Payment Method drop list. You then get instructions about how to complete the payment, usually along with an order id (e.g. you need to write the order id on your cheque if paying by post).
Some of these alternative methods incur a handling charge of the order of two or three dollars.
Yes - you can use it on other computers, for your own use only, for instance when you travel or visit friends and relatives.
When finished - you need to remove the unlock key (from Help | Show Unlock Code | Delete Unlock Key) or uninstall the program + its unlock key when you leave
If you do leave your unlock key on a computer then let me know and I will mark it as missing for future uploads of the program and issue another one.
The copy is for your use only. None of my programs are hardware locked. This means that you can use your copy on any computer without needing to contact me first.
Yes, there's an educational discount of 50%. There's a similar discount for those who are unemployed or with a very low income of 75%.
If you have a very low income or come from a country with low incomes, other licensing methods can also be arranged.
To get the discounts, you need to contact support@tunesmithy.co.uk to ask for a voucher. I will reply as promptly as I can, but am sometimes off-line so there may be a delay of some days or maybe even a week or so in replying to your application at some times of the year.
What you purchase is the unlock key. Text Echo comes with help documentation in web page format, and context sensitive help for the controls. You get to it from the program via the help menu and F1 and Shift + F1 help. If anything isn't covered in the help then for friendly assistance, contact: support@robertinventor.com
Yes when you purchase the unlock key from RegNow, you have an option to buy a CD with the freeware / trial versions of all my programs on it for an extra charge. They are identical to the programs that you download except that the ones available on this web site may sometimes be more recent than the ones on the CD if the program is one that I update frequently between version number changes.
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